Posted on 07/30/2013 2:32:12 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
1. Military facilities (small, densely populated states like New Jersey tend to have few of these compared to larger and more rural sates).
2. Indian reservations (I believe this factor alone puts New Mexico at or near the top of the list of "recipient" states).
3. Retiree populations (if Social Security and Medicare entitlements are included in the Federal spending calculations at the state level).
Kentucky is also home to Ft. Campbell, Ft. Knox and Kentucky Lake and several other Federal run agencies/projects.
It also doesn’t help when your major local industry is being oppressed by the President and his anti coal policies
Other states, when you all agree to get your hands out of my pockets every year I'll agree that NJ shouldn't get hurricane relief this one time.
Agreed! Now how do we implement this?
Krispy Kreme is imploding on his own.
not the only person who will be attacking Rand for virtually anything he says.
New Jersey residents get soaked in taxes. Have a lot of them in my circle and I know.
I think there’s a soreness about Christie Schmoozing and Smooching BO at a really bad time. So I guess there’s collateral. I don’t know.
War between the States?
Haha. Quite the conservative you are. The government isn’t a charity case. Stop defending its excesses.
...from 1990 to 2009, New Jersey was the third biggest net exporter of tax dollars while Kentucky was the 13th biggest net importer... I agree with Dan McLaughlin that the real winners in this brawl are Rubio, Cruz, and Walker because space is being cleared in the center-right between Christie and Paul for one (or more) of them...
I would never vote for an Obama-hugging lard ass like Cristie. He’s the one that started this BS. This is after the porker had his hugest with Obama.
Christie couln’t survive a long political race. His speech at the republican convention sucked because he was so winded. He’s so out of shape the walk on stage wore him out. He was pathetic.
He’s going to drop dead like James Gandolfini if he doesn’t lose about 100 pounds.
I thought the fight was about how much pork was stuffed in the bill, not the money going to Jersey.
I care not one whit what a chump like David Frum has to say.
Let them make their arguments. We need a good housecleaning, air all the dirty laundry and let’s compare notes.
I think Crispy is jockeying for shotgun on Hildebest’s ticket. He’s off the GOP reservation.
I'm tired of getting taxed disproportionately to the benefit I get relative to citizens from every other state. You defending that?
When this country was begun, the Founding Fathers did not see this country as a superman that would go around righting all the wrongs in the whole world. We simply cannot do it. So much of our policy has involved being on a war footing since World War II. We have to be more circumspect about our world policies.
Not my fault you live in a state with a high tax rate. Your pork barrell mentality is the reason our debt is 17 trillion. With your rational, I should exploit a couple workarounds and use my status as a student to get on SNAP. If everyone else is bankrupting the country, I might as well do my part. Christie is the phoniest kind of conservative. He’s all about small government until a crisis, then it’s gimme me pork time.
To borrow a speech from Obamas pastor Father Pheleger:
Christie is only mad because he’s ignorant of what The South is like. He thought he could pick on Paul because “this will be easy going against this southern hick dumbass” and all of a sudden he gets smacked hard by someone that ISN’T dumb and ISN’T easy to take down. And Christie’s now saying “AHHHH DAMN! WHERE’D THAT INTELLIGENT SOUTHERNER COME FROM? IM A NORTHENER! IM EDUCATED! THERE’S A SOUTHERNER HICK STEALING MY SHOW! WAAAAAAAAA!”
Snort. Tell your fellow liberals in New Jersey to quit voting for people who raise their taxes.
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